Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Student Apathy League, Harvard's only side of the road political organization, came sleepkwalking into its second term yesterday. Boasting no boosters, solicitors, or lapel snatchers the apathy league holds together its 3000 odd members by the sheer force of inertia...
...result, he moralizes too much, stating explicitly what his story conveys, or should convey, by itself. Written as a movie scenario, Ape and Essence is burdened with a "narrator" who points the lesson line by line. Yet the book has a certain awesome impressiveness; its sheer, intractable bitterness cannot but affect the reader as Huxley chants his litanies over modern civilization...
...real operational airplane. It is very small and heavy, made largely of metal plates nearly half an inch thick. It carres no useful load except the pilot, some instruments and fuel for two minutes of flight at full power. It smashed through the transonic speed band by sheer brute force, not aerodynamic virtuosity...
From the true Catholic point of view, his novels are depraved, perverted and, above all, malicious, in the strict theological sense of the word. His favorite characters, like Lady Metroland and Basil Seal in Black Mischief and Put Out More Flags, do evil gratuitously, for the sheer fun of the thing...
...small ray of comfort remains in his heart-a memory of times when he exchanged smiles with people. In A Man and a Woman, Louis Guilloux described a quarrel between a businessman and his wife-a quarrel which is hair-raising precisely because it is caused by nothing but sheer boredom. In his two contributions, Jean-Paul Sartre, France's latest light-o'-letters, fills his fountain pen with embalming fluid and blandly describes 1) how reasonable it is these days for a woman to be madly in love with a lunatic, 2) how inevitable it is that...